Adenia pechuelii
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Adult plant with leaves
07 Apr 2009
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Young plant with leaves
30 Apr 2011
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Habit
02 Jul 2013
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Habit
04 Apr 2015
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Fruit
04 Apr 2015
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Habit
04 Apr 2015
| Family: | Passifloraceae |
| Full name: | Adenia pechuelii (Engl.) Harms |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Wüstenkohlrabi (German) |
| English common name(s): | Elephants-foot, Desert kohlrabi |
| Synonym(s): | Echinothamnus pechuelii Engl. |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Woody perennial, reaching over 1 m in diameter. Stem tuberlike, swollen, with numerous short, thick, rigid, pointed, grooved twigs. Leaves sessile to very shortly petiolate, elongated to lanceolate, up to 50 x 20 mm, thick, leathery, blue-green, margins entire. Flowers in clusters, olive greenyellow, tube funnel-shaped to cup-shaped; petals lanceolate, smaller than sepals; female flowers with awl-like staminodes; style simple with globular, fringed stigma (Schreiber, 1968; WIND, 2002). (from Red Data Book of Namibian Plants, JS Loots) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
